Machine for gaging toe-caps and marking vamps



(No Model.)

A. W. TOWER.

MACHINE FOR GAGING TOE GAPS AND MARKING VAMPS.

No. 372,644. Patented Nov. 1. 1887.

/zlm/ IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII/vm Wnfor @rtizzw wlbwer 5 y a N. PETERS. Phnlo-Lilhognphar. wnmn wn. 0. c.

UnrThn STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

ARTHUR V. TOVER, OF RIDGE HILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHlNE FOR GAGING TOE-CAPS AND MARKING VAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,644, dated November 1, 1887.

Application filed May 9, 1887. Serial No. 237,562.

To (LZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR \V. TOWER, of Ridge Hill, county of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Machines for GagingToeCaps and for Marking Vamps, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to construct a machine for gaging toe-caps,to facilitate fastening the same to the vamps of boots and shoes, and also for marking the Vamps to facilitate the accurate application of the top pieces to the vamps.

In accordance with this invention the vamp, placed or held upon the bed-plate, is acted upon by a suitable guide or gage having a curved face or edge, against which is placed or pressed one edge of the too-cap which is to be pasted to the toe part of the vamp. Suitable adjusting devices are provided for the said guide or gage, to compensate for the different sizes of Vamps.

The machine to be herein described contains a marking-tool and suitable centering devices, by which to center and then mark the vamp at a point at the center of the instep portion, such mark or indication serving as a guide for the front seam or opening of the top piece or quarter.

Figure 1 shows in plan view a machine for gaging toe-caps and for marking Vamps e'mbodying this invention; Fig. 2, a vertical section of Fig. 1, taken on the dotted line 00 m,- Fig. 3, a sectional detail of the machine taken on the dotted line 313 Fig. 4, a sectional detail of the machine taken on the dotted line 5 z, and Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8 details to be referred to.

The main frame-work A of the machine comprises a suitable bed-plate and supportin legs or standards therefor.

The vamp, (shown by dotted lines,) having been laid upon the bed-plate, is held in fixed position thereon and properly centered by a centering device, herein shown as consisting of two forms,ff, placed side by side, but made movable toward and from each other, said forms being shaped cxteriorly to conform to the shape of the instep portion of the vamp, or that part to which the top pieces are at- !No model.)

tachcd. The formsff are each placed upon pins 6 6, (see Fig. 5,) secured to two laterallymovable plates, ff, fitted in the bedplate.

Each platef f is provided with a pin or stud, as 7, said pins or studs entering slots cut in a plate, f, secured to a shaft, f having its hearings in the bed-plate between two slotted plates f" so that as the said shaft is rotated the plates/" f will be moved toward and from each other. The platef is held down firmly upon the form by drawing the shaftf down through the bed-plate by a spring, 8. The vamp being placed in position, the shaftf is rotated sufficiently to cause the forms ff to snugly fit the opening in the vamp at the instep portion, at'ter which the marking-tool, herein shown as having a push-point moving in the guideframcp, fixed to the bcd-plate, is depressed, so that its point indents the face of the vamp at the center line to thereby mark the place of the front seam or opening of the top piece. The puslrpointp is normally held in elevated position by a suitable spring, p (See Fig. 2.)

The vamp toe cap gage or guide is herein shown as an open frame composed of side bars, a a, hinged to a projection, a", rising from a block or plate, (I, dovetailed into the bed-plate and made movable longitudinally therein, the said bars a a being joined together at their opposite ends by a strip or bar of material, a having a curved outer edge (see Fig. l) to act as a gage for the toe-cap. The frame referred to has a crossbar, I), against the under side of which bears the outer or free end of a spring, I), acting to normally keep the gage in elevated position. The operating-lever c, pivoted to the upper side of the block (Z, and resting at its free end on the cross-bar b, is joined by a connecting rod orlink,t, to a trcadle, if, so that as the treadle is depressed the opcrating-lever 0 will strike the cross-bar and cause the gage to descend and bear upon the vamp placed upon the bed-plate, as shown by dotted lines. The block or plate (1 has at its under side a projection, d, scrcw-thrcaded to receive the threaded end of a rod, d, having its bearing in the framework of the machine, and provided with a hand-wheel, d", by which it may be rotated, to thereby move the block (1 longitudinally.

A sliding plate, 6, dovetailed in the bedplate, has two series of graduations, 2 3, one of which, as 3, cooperates with a fixed point, 4, to adjust for Vamps of different length, which are cut to fit lasts of different styles, it being understood that some styles of lasts are longer than others, although of the same size. The other series of graduations, 2, co-operate with the gage for a to adjust for the different sizes regularly. By making a single adjusting device of this kind the said screw 5 is turned until the required position is secured for a last of the style to be used, the different sizes being gaged by the device a. When the gage is held depressed, the toe-cap will be applied tothe vamp with its edge against the gage bar of, as above described.

It is obvious that, if desired, either the toecap-actuating device or the marking device may be employed singly.

The fornisff are shown as detachable, so that forms of different configuration may be substituted for ramps of different styles.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the precise construction of devices herein shown, as they may be materially modified, and yet the result above specified maybe accomplished.

I claim- 1. In a machine for gaging toe-caps, the 1ongitudinallyreeessed bed-plate to support the vamp, combined with thegage a, having a curved face against which the edge of the toecap is held while being fastened, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for gaging toe-caps, the longitudinally-recessed bed-plate and adjustable spring-clamp and centering devices for the vamp, combined with the movable gage and tions, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4:; The bed-plate and means for holding the vamp upon the bed-plate, combined with the pivoted gage, the block d, operating-lever a, V

and screw-rod, substantially as described.

5. The bed-plate and adjustable centering device for holding the vamp in position upon the bed-plate, combined with the markingtool 19, for marking, as described, the center line of the vamp, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. The bed plate and laterally-movable detachable forms f f, combined with the plates f f, the slotted plate f shaft f and the marking tool, as 19, substantially as described.

7. The bed-plate and formsff', movable toward and from each other, combined with means for moving the forms and a springcontrolled marking tool, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR WV. TOWER.

Witnesses:

BER-NICE J. N OYES, FRED L. EMERY. 

